Last year the parent organization of the anti-ICE hotline spent $44,180.22 in legal independent expenditures on behalf left leaning political candidates in Massachusetts while also receiving $100,000 in state “environmental justice” grants from Governor Maura Healey and State Attorney General Andrea Campbell.

Since 2021, Neighbor to Neighbor supported twenty-eight candidates spending $114,862.58 becoming a significant player in municipal and State House elections in Lynn, Springfield and Worcester.

Donations to the Luce ICE Hotline go to the Healey-connected Neighbor to Neighbor Education Fund.

Expenditures ranged from thousands for printed campaign materials to lunch at Taco Bell, but perhaps the most impactful expenditures were for boots on the ground “canvassing support.”

Many of the expenditures include scant detail in official OCPF reports indicating only “Work on IE Campaign.”

As a 501c4 the Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Action Fund is not required to disclosure its donors leaving unclear who exactly funded the expenditures and in many cases what the expenditures were even for.

State Senator Adam Gomez has received the biggest boost from Neighbor to Neighbor since 2021, hauling in $19K in support in 2024.

Etel Haxhiaj, facing trial next month after an anti-ICE arrest on Eureka Street in May 2025, received the most support from N2N last year netting $7,374.42 in a losing reelection campaign.

Winning Worcester City Council candidate Robert Bilotta received $6,289.45, he defeated incumbent Candy Mero-Carlson.

Gomez’s top legislative priorities for 2026 is to end ICE287g cooperation agreements and bolster a fledgling state-funded immigration legal defense fund.

“With ICE raids still threatening our communities and ongoing funding challenges under the current federal administration. I’ve filed legislation to end 287(g) agreements,” Gomez wrote earlier this month. Gomez also wants to establish an immigration legal defense fund.

Gomez won his 2024 Democrat primary by forty percentage points and was unopposed in the general election.

The independent campaign expenditures were made from the Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Action Fund, a 501c4 non-profit and sister organization to the Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund a 501c3 charity.

Dalida Rocha, a Maura Healey appointee to the State Board of Education is the Executive Director of both the Neighbor to Neighbor Action Fund and the Neighbor to Neighbor Education Fund. Rocha who spoke at the anti-ICE rally on Boston City Hall earlier this month stood by Haxhiaj’s side at the time of the Eureka Street incident.

Rocha also serves on Healey’s Energy Transformation Advisory Board. J. Miles Gresham, a N2N staffer, who provided “canvassing support” for Haxhiaj serves on Healey’s Environmental Justice Council.

According to OCPF: “Massachusetts campaign finance law requires the disclosure of expenditures of more than $250 in support of or in opposition to candidates that are made independent of any political committee. There is no statutory limit on such expenditures.”